{"id":"frank-sartor","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/frank-sartor","language":"en","name":"Frank Sartor","name_en":"Frank Sartor","name_ne":null,"description":"Australian politician","headline":"Australian politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Francesco Ernest Sartor is an Australian former politician who served as New South Wales Minister for Climate Change and the Environment and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer) between 2009 and 2011. He was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Rockdale for the Labor Party between 2003 and 2011. Sartor has previously been Minister for Planning, Redfern Waterloo and the Arts, and Minister for Water and Utilities in the Iemma and Carr governments. Before being elected to the New South Wales Parliament, Sartor was the second longest-serving Lord Mayor of Sydney, after Clover Moore, having held the post for nearly 12 years from September 1991 to March 2003. Sartor retired from politics at the 2011 state election.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"9 November 1951","date":"1951-11-09"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Yenda","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3572159"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Australia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q408"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Australian Labor Party","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216082"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Sydney","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q487556"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Minister for the Arts (2 April 2007 – 5 September 2008)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17000818","start":"2007-04-02","end":"2008-09-05"},{"text":"Minister for Planning (3 August 2005 – 5 September 2008)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17511941","start":"2005-08-03","end":"2008-09-05"},{"text":"Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (22 March 2003 – 26 March 2011)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19202748","start":"2003-03-22","end":"2011-03-26"},{"text":"mayor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30185"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Officer of the Order of Australia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9684829","date":"2002-01-26"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sartor","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Frank Sartor born?","a":"Frank Sartor was born on 9 November 1951 in Yenda."},{"q":"What positions has Frank Sartor held?","a":"Positions held by Frank Sartor include: Minister for the Arts (2007–2008); Minister for Planning (2005–2008); Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (2003–2011); mayor."},{"q":"Where did Frank Sartor study?","a":"Frank Sartor was educated at University of Sydney."}],"related":[{"name":"Kevin Greene","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kevin-greene"},{"name":"Nicole Kidman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nicole-kidman"},{"name":"Howard Florey","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/howard-florey"},{"name":"Campbell Newman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/campbell-newman"},{"name":"Francis George Allman Barnard","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/francis-george-allman-barnard"},{"name":"Frank Beaurepaire","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/frank-beaurepaire"},{"name":"Gary Humphries","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gary-humphries"},{"name":"Jon Stanhope","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jon-stanhope"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/frank-sartor-7d464e914e.jpg","width":376,"height":560,"license":"CC BY 4.0","credit":"Tanya Koorey, courtesy of the City of Sydney Archives","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lord_Mayor_Frank_Sartor_at_Aurora_Place,_88_Phillip_Street_Sydney,_2000_A-00055976.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Frank Sartor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sartor","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q1316744","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316744","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Lord Mayor Frank Sartor at Aurora Place, 88 Phillip Street Sydney, 2000 A-00055976.jpg by Tanya Koorey, courtesy of the City of Sydney Archives (CC BY 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lord_Mayor_Frank_Sartor_at_Aurora_Place,_88_Phillip_Street_Sydney,_2000_A-00055976.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Frank Sartor, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Lord Mayor Frank Sartor at Aurora Place, 88 Phillip Street Sydney, 2000 A-00055976.jpg — Tanya Koorey, courtesy of the City of Sydney Archives, CC BY 4.0.","cite":"\"Frank Sartor\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/frank-sartor. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-03T07:02:53Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-06","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/frank-sartor","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/frank-sartor","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/frank-sartor?lang=ne"}}